Shortly after the November 1938 pogroms, journalist and historian Konrad Heiden wrote a work entitled Night Oath, in which he gave a detailed account of the horrific events marking the transition from ...

What’s in a name? November 9, 2015, marks the 77th anniversary of the 1938 pogroms launched throughout Germany, a nation that, after March 1938, also included Austria. More than 1,000 synagogues were ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Boerneplatz synagogue in flames on Nov. 10, 1938, during the 'Night of Broken Glass' in Frankfurt, Germany. History/Universal ...

In our collective memory of the Holocaust, Kristallnacht occupies a central but ambiguous place. If you look simply at the statistics, there is little reason why the events of November 9-10, 1938, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This photo released by Yad Vashem, World Holocaust Remembrance Center, shows German Nazis and civilians watch ransacking of Jewish ...

A mother walks with her child past a destroyed Jewish clothing store in Magdeburg, Germany, in November 1938. (Credit: CNS photo/courtesy of the German Federal Archives Bundesarchiv.) Listen WURZBURG, ...

Jews throughout Germany marked today the 16th anniversary of the night of November 9-10, 1938, when Nazi gangs throughout Germany destroyed hundreds of synagogues and Jewish communal institutions, ...

(JTA) The Austrian government inaugurated a $7 million Holocaust memorial monument on the anniversary of the 1938 Kristallnacht pogroms. The “Shoah Wall of Names” that city and central government ...

Multiple, violent attacks on Jews by the local, non-Jewish community spread through a Western European nation, striking fear in the hearts of those who have already been experiencing record-levels of ...

"I can still clearly remember the morning of November 10," said W. Michael Blumenthal. "My father was arrested early in the morning. Amid the commotion and despite the fact that my mother had ...

JERUSALEM – Israel’s Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial acknowledged Sunday that a series of photos from Nazi Germany’s 1938 pogroms against Jews have been seen and published before, revising a claim it ...